Yebul, Morning and Evening Buddhist Ceremonies (예불)

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Yebul, Morning and Evening Buddhist Ceremonies

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The Buddhist ceremony called Yebul
is offered to pay homage to all Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Yebul is also practiced to cultivate oneself. Buddhists offer these
ceremonies twice a day, in the morning and evening. Yebul begins with the Verse of Tea (茶偈) and is followed by: the Verse of Five Scents (五分香偈), the
Mantra of Incense Offering (獻香眞言), and the Ritual of Seven Prostrations (七頂禮).

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​The Verse of Tea

We now
offer this pure water as nectar-like tea

To the
Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.

May
this be received in compassion!

May
this be received in compassion!

May
this be received in great compassion!

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​The Verse of Five Scents

​The
sweet scent of our observance of the precepts,

​Of our
meditative concentration, of our wisdom,

​Of our
liberation, and of the knowledge of our liberation!

​We
present these offerings to the countless Buddhas,

​Dharma,
and Sanghas in all of the ten directions,

​In the
universe pervaded by brightly lit clouds.

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​ The Mantra of Incense Offering

​Om Ba
A Ra Do Bi Ya Hum (three times)

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​​The Ritual of Seven Prostrations

​With
utmost sincerity,

​We pay homage to
Sakyamuni Buddha,

​The teacher of the
universe, the loving father of all beings.

​With
utmost sincerity,

​We pay
homage to all sacred Buddhas,

​Always
present in all corners of the universe.

​With
utmost sincerity,

​We pay
homage to all the teachings,

​Eternally
existing in the universe.

​With
utmost sincerity,

​We pay
homage to Manjusri, Bodhisattva of great wisdom;

Samantabhadra,
Bodhisattva of great action;

Avalokitesvara,
Bodhisattva of great compassion,

​And
Ksitigarbha, Bodhisattva of great vows.

​With
utmost sincerity,

​We pay
homage to the ten major disciples, the sixteen holy ones,

​The
five hundred holy ones, self-enlightened ones,

​And
all of the one thousand two hundred great arhats,

​To
whom the Buddha entrusted

​The
transmission of the teachings.

​With
utmost sincerity,

​We pay
homage to those great patriarchs, eminent monks and countless teachers,

​Who
have transmitted the lamp of the Dharma over generations.

​With
utmost sincerity,

​We pay
homage to all of the sanghas,

​Eternally
existing in all the ten directions.

The
inexhaustible Three Jewels!

​We
earnestly wish that you receive our devotion,

​And
bestow your blessings on us.

​We
further wish that all beings in the universe attain Buddhahood.

- excerpt from Buddhist English (Intermediate 2) published in 2014 by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism